As Mother Nature marks the much-anticipated arrival of spring with warmer, longer days, it too marks the time for ranchers to come together to participate in the annual rite of passage known as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Burdick Ranch, nestled in Nebraska’s Sandhills, spring cattle branding is an annual act of community. The sheer scale of ...

There are three things we ranchers seem to deal with on a regular basis: government, Mother Nature and cattle thieves. We can't always control how the government regulates our industry, and we can't ...

A family member I visited recently explained that she believes the star on the Texas flag came into being from the branding-iron symbol of one of the early families that ranched in the San Antonio ...

Myron Sonne of Letcher, South Dakota, has been collecting brand books for decades, and his extensive collection has been donated to the South Dakota State University Archives. Myron Sonne of Letcher, ...